RLG101H5 Lecture Notes - Counterhegemony, Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci
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The big bang theory ( 20th jan, 2011) -power are usually understood in a political and economical context. -religion can be an ideology, but not all and all the time. -he talks about religion in a really general sense since he does not know about. Marx using religious quotes to oppress people from gaining power. Let every person be subject to the governing autorities; for there is no authority except from god and those authorities that exist have been instituted by god. Althusser ( altu-sair : repressive state apparatus (police, g-20, government, etc. , ideological state apparatus (film, tv, cultures, etc. ) The more education you get, the less individual thinking you have . -illusion of choice (althusser states that we are actually choosing what we are living in, and we are building our own prison; instead of what marx said, saying that we are drugged and blinded) -are we choosing to be exploited? (how would we know?)
